carbonplan / dac-costing

direct air capture + energy cost analysis

A python module for estimating the cost of building and operating direct air capture facilities. Try it on Binder:

Documentation

This repository contains a simple Python module for analyzing various Direct Air Capture configurations in terms of their energy and fiscal requirements.

The dac_costing package

The dac_costing package includes two modules, model and widget.

The model module includes component classes that can be used to create various DAC scenarios.

Classes

• BatterySection: class for representing battery requirements
• EnergySection: class for representing the electric or thermal requirements of a system
• DacSection: class for representing the DAC facility (without its energy requirements)
• DacModel: class for representing the full/composite DAC system

Example usage

params['Base Energy Requierement [MW]'] = 38
ebattery = BatterySection(**params)
electric = EnergySection('Solar', battery=ebattery, **params)

params['Base Energy Requierement [MW]'] = 234
tbattery = BatterySection(**params)
thermal = EnergySection('Solar', battery=tbattery, **params)

params['Total Capex [$]'] = 936.01
dac = DacSection(**params)

dac_all = DacModel(electric, thermal, dac, **params)
dac_all.compute().series

Installing

pip install git+git://github.com/carbonplan/dac-costing@master

license

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